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The hope of the early church : a handbook of patristic eschatology / Brian E. Daley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.Description: xiv, 300 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521352581
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 236/.09/015 20
LOC classification:
  • BT819.5 .D34 1990
Other classification:
  • 11.61
  • 11.50
Online resources:
Contents:
Visions of a new day: early Semitic Christianity and Christian apocalyptic -- Making history intelligible: eschatology and the apologists -- Regaining the light: eschatology in the gnostic crisis (150-200) -- Senectus Mundi: eschatology in the West, 200-250 -- A school for souls: Alexandrian eschatology and its critics (185-300) -- The dawn of the final conflict: Latin eschatology in the great persecution (303-313) -- Facing death in freedom: Eastern eschatology in the Age of Nicaea (325-400) -- Redemptio Totius Corporis: Latin eschatology in the fourth century -- Grace present and future: Greek eschatology in the fifth century -- Signs of a church triumphant: Latin eschatology in the fifth century -- Apokatastasis and apocalyptic: Eastern eschatology after Chalcedon -- The end of all flesh: eschatology in the sixth-century West -- Epilogue: a common hope.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-287) and index.

Visions of a new day: early Semitic Christianity and Christian apocalyptic -- Making history intelligible: eschatology and the apologists -- Regaining the light: eschatology in the gnostic crisis (150-200) -- Senectus Mundi: eschatology in the West, 200-250 -- A school for souls: Alexandrian eschatology and its critics (185-300) -- The dawn of the final conflict: Latin eschatology in the great persecution (303-313) -- Facing death in freedom: Eastern eschatology in the Age of Nicaea (325-400) -- Redemptio Totius Corporis: Latin eschatology in the fourth century -- Grace present and future: Greek eschatology in the fifth century -- Signs of a church triumphant: Latin eschatology in the fifth century -- Apokatastasis and apocalyptic: Eastern eschatology after Chalcedon -- The end of all flesh: eschatology in the sixth-century West -- Epilogue: a common hope.

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